It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
From Randy Newman
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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